The group behind the reimagining of the authentic Lara Croft journey, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, have opened up on how they’re approaching the 1996 sport’s issue and instakills, acknowledging it’ll have to be adjusted for “fashionable participant tastes.”
Talking at a press occasion and captured by GamesRadar+, Crystal Dynamics’ sport director Will Kerslake mentioned: “half of reimagining a sport proper is adjusting that sport evolving for fashionable participant tastes.”
He additionally hinted at what variety of gameplay we will count on to see, insisting “it’s core to the Tomb Raider expertise that there are puzzles in fight and traversal and death-defying motion.” Nonetheless, Kerslake harassed that the issues we keep in mind from the authentic sport will stay, including: “you may see huge rolling balls, and , the issues that you just count on in a Tomb Raider sport are going to be there in spades.”
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is due out sooner or later in 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X and S, and PC through Steam. Alix Wilton Regan will now play Lara Croft in each Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and 2027’s Tomb Raider: Catalyst, with Camilla Luddington, who portrayed Lara Croft in the Survivor Trilogy, issuing a heartfelt goodbye to the character this week.
In the meantime, some Tomb Raider followers are bracing themselves for retcons, given the want to match each Legacy of Atlantis and Catalyst in a brand new, unified Tomb Raider timeline. There’s additionally the upcoming Amazon TV present to take into account. The live-action Tomb Raider Prime Video collection, which is able to star Sport of Thrones alum Sophie Turner, will “reinvent the franchise on a large scale” and interconnect “live-action tv collection and video video games right into a unified storytelling universe.”
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